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There are two aspects of our ego. Our spiritual or 'I am' ego which reflects who we are and which is our true ego, and our earth plane ego which, as with all of the earth plane is a mirror, or a reversed reflection of our true ego. Our earth plane ego reflects who we are not, in both a spiritual and earth plane context. |
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Our earth plane ego reflects not who we are, but who we are experiencing within our lifetime. However, our earth plane ego can be removed a step further. If for example we have chosen to experience being a leader, (or a teacher, tailor, tinker or whatever), then we can allow ourselves to become what we chosen to experience and in so doing we develop an easy natural confidence to experience what we have chosen to experience, by becoming a 'natural leader' etc. Natural confidence is sometimes mistaken for the ego based arrogance, but the difference between arrogance and confidence is that when one is confident they are able to admit that they were wrong even if they believed that they were right with every fibre of their being. Arrogance or false confidence cannot allow us to admit that we are wrong, because if we are wrong we loose the foundation of our false confidence. |
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Our earth plane ego can be divided into the positive and negative aspects of our identity. The positive is the 'I am within this experience' identity which is when we allow ourself to be who we are based on the sum of our earth plane experiences. (As opposed to the spiritual 'I am' which is who we are without qualification). The negative is the 'I fear that…' component within our earth plane experiences. We create the negative aspect of our identity, when our fears, regardless of the cause of our fear, prevents us from accepting what we have chosen to experience, within our lifetime. We can retain the example of a leader for the purpose of illustration. If we have chosen to experience being a leader in this lifetime, we can either allow ourselves to be a leader, or we can not allow ourselves to be a leader. If we allow ourselves to be a leader, we experience being a leader. If we do not allow ourselves to be a leader, we nevertheless retain our choice to experience being a leader. Having chosen to experience being a leader, and having not allowed ourselves to experience being a leader, because of our fears, regardless of the specific nature of our fears, we then attempt to make ourselves experience being a leader. Unfortunately, we have no true acceptance that we are a leader, and the only way that we can therefore experience being a leader, is to create and wear the 'mask' of a leader. |
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| If we are a leader, we do not need to seek validation
that we are a leader, and as such we do not seek the recognition, acknowledgement
and confirmation from others that we are a leader. We do not need to justify
who we are, we only feel the need to justify ourselves when we seek external
validation of what is no more than a mask.
We create the mask of a leader through taking action which is designed to create an image of a leader which we project onto others, and they reflect back onto us as a means of feeding and maintaining our ego mask. However, because our mask is based purely on projection and reflection our mask, or our image as a leader is not real, and we know that our image is not real. We can convince ourselves that our false image is real, providing our projection and reflection process is not interrupted. Somewhat like a clear pond which acts as a mirror to perfectly reflect the image which has been created around the pond, but only for as long as the pond's reflective surface is not disturbed, and the slightest movement will disturb the pond's surface. |
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| Our negative Ego, is a product of our fear that
we are not good enough, which manifests itself as our attempt to live up
to society's predefined image, instead of simply being who we are.
We can achieve society's predefined image to a degree, but achieving society's predefined image is a waste of time, because society's predefined image is not who we are. How can we be who we are, when we pretended to be who society, at whatever level we choose to exist, wants us to be. If we return to our example, how can we be a leader, if we pretend to be society's predefined image of leader? |
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We can overcome our negative ego, by realising that our negative ego is based on our fear, which has its roots in the evil lie that we are not good enough. All that we need to do, is to allow ourselves to be who we are, in the earth plane context, which is a soul gaining experience. If we accept that we are a soul gaining experience, and that we have no reason to fear that we are not good enough for whatever we have chosen to experience in our given lifetime, then we have no reason to seek artificial validation from others. Without a need for validation, we have no negative ego. To 'overcome' negative ego which is a physical manifestation of our fear that we are not good enough, we do not need to do anything. We do not need to achieve anything. We do not need to rise above anything, or move beyond anything. All that we need to do to remove our negative ego, is to allow ourselves to be who we are. The reality is that fear, all fear is an illusion. Fear does not exist unless and until we give life to fear. To move beyond fear we need to act as though fear does not exist. If we recognise our fear we are giving life to the fear, regardless of whether we choose to accept our fear, fight our fear or ignore our fear. We need to act as though fear does not exist, and in so doing fear will not exist, because we will cease giving fear life, and fear will have no means to manifest itself. If we return to the example of our leader, our leader needs to act as though our leader does not need external validation to be a leader, and in so doing our leader will cease to need external validation. If the leader acts as though the fear (need for validation) does not exist the fear, will cease to exist. However, if our leader acts as though the fear exists, the leader will seek external validation, or ignore the need for external validation, and in so doing the leader will give life to the fear (need for validation), and the fear will become real. Fear, all fear becomes real when we give fear life. |
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Those who are experiencing a lifetime where they have chosen to be a leader, but have not allowed themselves to be a leader will do anything within their power, they will use and abuse anybody, in order to maintain their pond image which they have created, or to feed their negative ego, which is also feeding and giving life to the fears which prevented them from allowing themselves to experience being a leader in the first instance. When a person's negative ego is shattered, (as opposed to dented or damaged, which can be repaired), the person is shattered because without the false foundation upon which their life was built, the person has no foundation at all.
If a person's negative ego is shattered, the person does have an opportunity to rebuild their life on a new foundation and in so doing, allow themselves to release their fears, and experience what they had chosen to experience, instead of a facsimile of what they have chosen to experience. Unfortunately, those who's ego has been shattered are often unable to see past their current difficulties. Instead of rebuilding their lives based on a true foundation, or perhaps another false foundation, they choose to end their lives prematurely, unaware that incomplete experiences are repeated. |
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If we return the spiritual ego, the I am. We can become aware and we can experience I am whilst in physical form. The I am which is who we are, is all that is, the sum of existence, the universal consciousness or God, as always the label is unimportant. We can experience being I am or all that is. We can experience not only feeling all that is, but also being all that is, whilst we retain our physical form, but we cannot become all that is, until we release our physical form. |
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When we allow ourselves to feel all that is, we allow ourselves to feel the thread which binds all that is, and we allow ourselves to feel, for example, a flower, or a distant sun, or a cockroach, or whatever we choose either separately or simultaneously. When we allow ourselves to experience being all that is, we are the thread which binds all that is, we are that flower, or that distant sun, or that cockroach, or whatever we choose either separately or simultaneously. There are many who will have difficulty accepting that we are God, (regardless of the label and perception that we attribute to God), and that we can and will allow ourselves to become God. In fact, truly accepting that we are God, and allowing ourselves to become God is the last thing that we would do, because truly accepting that we are God, and allowing ourselves to become God is literally, the last thing that we do. |
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